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Scale of Repair Cultures

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Buying repair/hack tool kit, mobile phone market, Chengdu, 2005

Formal and highly organised mobile phone repair culture in Chengdu, above and more disorganised and smaller scale TV and other electronics repair in Lhasa below. What are the pre-requisites for informal repair cultures? What are the repair volumes for TVs vs mobile phones? Diversity of stocks? Size of components?

TV to be repaired, Lhasa, 2005

Writing from Tokyo | December 22, 2005 | Permalink